Classification of news journalism genres: domestic and foreign approaches

Abstract

The article deals with domestic and foreign theoretical and practical approaches to the classification of news journalism genres and the criteria on which such classifications are based on. As a result of the comparative analysis, it was found that Ukrainian theorists of journalism follow scheme for dividing genres into informative, analytical, artistic and publicistic one; the criteria of division are object of reflection, way of reflecting life stuff, purpose, and scope of coverage of reality, specifics of literary and stylistic devices. In the foreign communication theory, it is common to distinguish such genres as informative, interpretive, opinionative, diversional and utilitarian one, but the main criteria are social function, method and object. For practical purposes, general characteristics of the news journalism genres according to International Press Telecommunications Council standards, which are applied in everyday practice of modern media companies, are given in the paper.